MUMBAI: With the BMC clearing tenders for maintenance of parks and gardens to companies that have bid close to 40% below the BMC’s estimates, citizens groups have suggested that an ‘oversight committee’ be set up to review the works by contractors.
The BMC took over three months to decide on the low bids but finally gave in and cleared a proposal to award contracts worth Rs 69 crore to companies that have bid 40% below estimates. Despite scrapping tenders and forfeiting deposits of contractors for making bids 40% below estimates, contractors have once again bid around 40% below estimates in fresh tenders floated this month for maintenance of over 200 parks and gardens.
